> Then the OS appears to be loading but it stops at > "probing device nodes." It sticks here for a good > couple of minutes, then I hear my hard disks shut off > and come back on.
ATA disks stopping and immediately starting up, that sounds like bug 6622965 "ata_power(PM_LEVEL_D0) stops ata disks, instead of changing to D0 fully on". http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6622965 It's more or less harmless - and does not prevent the system from booting. > After that, it gives me a prompt > for "system maintenance mode." Are there any other error message logged to the console screen before it shows the "system maintenance" prompt? > I enter the default > root password "opensolaris" and it takes me to a bash > prompt. No command I enter at the bash prompt > appears to work. Maybe because it was unable to find the optical drive / CD media? > I have tried this several times and it always freezes > at "probing device nodes." > > Hardware: > > Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 Socket AM2 -- > Nvidia Nforce 570 chipset > CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4000+ > RAM: 2GB Corsair XMS2 pc-6400 > Hard drives: 2 standard Western Digital IDE in > master/slave configuration. > Video -- Nvidia Geforce 8400GS > Sound -- Soundblaster Live! 5.1 (motherboard has an > onboard Realtek chipset, but I don't use it). What kind of optical drive are you using? Is that perhaps a S-ATA optical drive? > I suspect I have incompatable hardware somewhere in > the above mix, but I have no idea how to diagnose > exactly which component causes the freeze at "probing > device nodes." Any ideas? This message posted from opensolaris.org
